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Monthly Archives: July 2017

The best advice my Mother-in-law gave me (amongst many other pearls) was to plant the seed. ~ In the early days of my Husband and I being together, I was pregnant. So it wasn’t me planting any seeds, he did that already (sorry Sandy)! And during this time, he and I were reassessing our life […]

How do I explain New Years Eve 1999 to my daughters? I’m reflecting and wondering: Where are all the people that were convinced and tried to convince me, that the world was about to shit it’s pants? I don’t get rattled very easily (except cats with rabies and air travel turbulence) and I’m far from […]

TWELVE And today you are 12 and you are the light that shines for our family always. You are a little lioness darling. Caring for our pride and seeing the beauty in everything. Dad and I adore you and will do our best to ensure your 13th trip around the sun is memorable and lots […]

Ok. It wasn’t band camp. It was my year nine school camp. Things happened. SO many things happened that shifted my very monochrome 14 year old perspective to a kaleidoscopic upbeat, life is amazing! kind of view. Firstly, I got to leave home for a week. Epic. I was excited because my brother (who I […]

Today, late afternoon but last year, I was nervously pacing beside our station wagon while the girls sat inside it leaning from the backseat to the front, warming their hands with the heater up high. Music was blaring inside the car but I could barely hear it through the car doors and with my mobile […]

Ten years and one day ago I woke up needing to pee, beating the 4am alarm I’d set the evening before. The combination of butterfly’s in my tummy, tiny feet kicking and the sway of the ship on the ocean made me feel unsteady on my feet. Since the room was no more than a […]